Today, on August 17, 2012, we learned what kind of “Republic” Putin’s Russia is.

Today was the day that three young women were sent to prison for two years each, officially for a “religious hate crime”.

But that is of course just the official spin. The truth is that they were sent to prison for saying what everybody knows, that Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin is a dictator wannabe who treats the Russian Federation and the people unfortunate enough to live there as his personal property and plaything.